Sentence examples for abbey was established from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the most remarkable abbey was established by the Benedictines on the rocky island of Mont-Saint-Michel in 966.

One of about 40 Benedictine monasteries in the United States, Assumption Abbey was established by Swiss monks in the 1890s, located near this rail-stop town because it was populated by Roman Catholic, German-speaking immigrants from Russia and Hungary.

The abbey was established by King Henry I in 1121 and was where the monarch was buried in January 1136 after his death in Normandy.

An abbey was established at Medmenham, in a property which incorporated the ruins of a Cistercian abbey founded in 1201.

Arbroath was made a royal burgh in 1178 by King William the Lion at the same time as the Abbey was established.

In 1093 a Benedictine abbey was established on the site by Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester, and the earliest surviving parts of the structure date from that time.

When their abbey at Cârţa was established in the early 13th century, Andrew II ordered that the strip of land running up to the mountains between the rivers Olt, Cârţişoara and Arpaş be transferred from the Romanians to the new monastery.

A centre was established at Wearmouth Abbey to teach the Gregorian chants to those who came from every part of England.

After the supposed remains of St. Mary Magdalene were deposited in the abbey for safekeeping from Muslim armies, vast numbers of pilgrims were attracted to the abbey, and a town of about 10,000 inhabitants was established around it.

There's been an Abbey on this cliff since 664, when it was established by the Celts, and it operated until 1583 when Henry the VIII closed all Roman Catholic places of worship.

When the new see at Ely was established in 1109 in a former abbey, it was carved out of Bloet's diocese who was compensated for the loss by a grant of land.